Garden Bloggers Sustainable Living Project

A quick reminder (or announcement, if you didn’t already know) about the Garden Bloggers Sustainable Living Project going on over at Thanks for Today. Jan is celebrating the upcoming Earth Day – April 21, 2010 – by encouraging her fellow bloggers to write about the ways they’re incorporating sustainable practices into their approach to gardening, such as installing rain barrels, learning about composting, and creating community gardens. As an incentive, Jan has found a number of sponsors to offer great prizes for the event. If you’d like to participate, check out the rules and prizes in Earth Day Celebration: Rain Barrel Giveaway. Don’t wait: The deadline is 11:59 p.m. on April 15, 2010. To read the entries, click over to Garden Bloggers Sustainable Living Project.

Nan gardens on 4 acres in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In the firm belief that every garden ought to have a pretentious-sounding (or at least pretentious-looking) name, she refers to her home grounds as "Hayefield." There, she experiments with a wide variety of plants and planting styles, from cottage gardens and color-based borders to managed meadows, naturalistic plantings, and veggies--all under the watchful eyes of her two pet alpacas, Daniel and Duncan.